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The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em> office.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This year has certainly been a memorable one for The Paris Review<\/em>, with more than a few moments that\u00a0tried\u00a0our resolve.\u00a0But we prefer to remember it as a landmark year, measured out by four extraordinary issues that included Hilton Als\u2019s imaginary biopic<\/a> about James Baldwin and Nina Simone, the fiction debuts of J.\u2009M. Holmes<\/a> and J. Jezewska Stevens<\/a>, and an interview with Maxine Groffsky<\/a>, one of the magazine\u2019s first female editors, which reads like a page-turning feminist adventure story. This was the year we launched our podcast (there are six episodes<\/a> to carry you into the new year, and many more to come) and reintroduced\u00a0the\u00a0Paris Review Editions imprint with the Women at Work<\/em><\/a> interview anthology. As of this writing, the volume is sold out, but sign up for our newsletter<\/a>: the next book is already underway.<\/p>\n

And here on the Daily<\/em>, we\u2019ve been publishing exciting new writing, well, daily. When I took over this post in September, I was nervous. My predecessor, Dan Piepenbring, had left big shoes to fill (as well as, it turned out, actual high-heeled shoes behind the desk, though he has denied ownership). Since the 2016 election, I have been filled with an existential dread that only seems to recede when I\u00a0felt I was doing something worthwhile. Three months in, I can proclaim with absolute certainty that what we\u2019re doing on the Daily<\/em> and at The Paris Review <\/em>is more than worthwhile\u2014it\u2019s essential. In a year of constant, terrifying news alerts, we have carved out a space for humor, for reflection, for going deep and going wide, and for capturing our moment not through its tweets but through its culture. It\u2019s easy to get lost in despair. We want to make it easy, too, to get lost in writing that makes us feel reinvigorated, hopeful, and less alone.<\/p>\n

To get you started, I\u2019ve selected ten pieces we\u2019ve published online in 2017\u2014starting with monstrous men and ending with good advice:<\/p>\n

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1. What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men<\/a><\/p>\n

Claire Dederer is fearless. She asks the hard questions, then harder ones still.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

2. A Number of Reasons I Have Been Depressed Lately<\/a><\/p>\n

David\u00a0Sedaris gives us ten reasons for his recent blues. Spoiler: several of them have to do with Trump.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

3. The Inventions of Witches<\/a><\/p>\n

Kathryn Nuernberger on witches, Derrida, and the impossibility of ever being truly known.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

4. \u201cHuman Life is Punishment,\u201d and Other Pleasures of Studying Latin<\/a><\/p>\n

In other language textbooks, writes Frankie Thomas, you might learn phrases\u00a0such as, \u201cWhere is the library?\u201d In Wheelock\u2019s Latin textbook, you\u2019ll find, \u201cFew men have true friends, and few are deserving of them.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

5. Watership Down<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Emily Ruskovich\u00a0has a very, very deep connection to these rabbits.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

6. Why Write Fiction in 2017?<\/a><\/p>\n

After conducting interviews with 150 of the greatest writers of our time,\u00a0Joe Fassler brings us not just answers but\u00a0a moving manifesto.<\/em><\/p>\n

7. On Basquiat, the Black Body, and a Strange Sensation in My Neck<\/a><\/p>\n

Aisha Sabatini Sloan writes, \u201cMany see Basquiat\u2019s paintings and think only of his sad story, his illness. Not ours.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

8. The Dark Feels Different in November<\/a><\/p>\n

Nina MacLaughlin\u00a0on the gathering chill, the Japanese concept of\u00a0<\/em>ma, and the brightness that every dark period brings.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

9. Playing for Ralph Ellison\u2019s Little Man at Chehaw Station<\/a><\/p>\n

Mychal Denzel Smith on Ellison, hip-hop, and the importance of broadening our definition of the American audience.<\/em><\/p>\n

10. Lynda Barry\u2019s Advice Column<\/a><\/p>\n

Brilliantly strange cartoonist Lynda Barry tackles every\u00a0question with aplomb, from \u201cHow do I stop my roommate from peeing in our drinking glasses?\u201d to \u201cHow do I cure my\u00a0hopeless\u00a0indecision?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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And don\u2019t forget to subscribe<\/a>! The New Year and four new issues await!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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